myself: modified indian pedal harmonium, echoplex, oscillator, glockenspiel, toy piano, sundry things.
Influences
there is but one person who has always (and shall always) made (make) sense to me: nico.
otherwise, there are many thinkers, writers, poets, filmmakers, et al (i shall presently overlook visual artists - filmmakers aside - for the sake of brevity): nietzsche, derrida, lyotard, cixous,wittgenstein, deleuze, adorno, hans jonas, levinas, arendt, kristeva, edmond jabes, camus, artaud, benjamin, marcuse, heidegger, husserl, r.d. laing, buber, kierkegaard, emerson, thoreau, whitman, bakunin, kropotkin, marx, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, blake, shelley, byron, lewis carroll, goethe, trakl, rilke, celan, grass, novalis, hoelderlin, rimbaud, baudelaire, valery, france, cocteau, breton, verlaine, theresa de avila, st. john of the cross, meister eckhart, pseudo dionsysius, angelus silesius, aquinas, maimonides, averroes, ibn khaldhun, al ghazali, zeno, cynegeticus, plato, socrates, xenophon, heraclitus, pythagorus, paul/saul, job, moses, nichiren, dogen, hui neng, lao tze, chuang tze, nagarjuna, bodhidharma, sidharrtha guatama, patanjali, basho, herzog, tarkovsky, garrel, wenders, beckett, philip k. dick, w.s. burroughs, dostoevsky, tolstoy, joseph conrad, hamsun, e.a. poe, kafka, borges, mahfouz, sarte, de sade, chatwin, unamuno, trocchi, jeanette winterson, huxley, brecht, pushkin, orwell, mann, hesse, jarry, et al. i know i'm forgetting an awful lot here.
and then, of course, there are countless works of indeterminate origins ... another time.
Sounds Like
nico, robert wyatt, john cale, this heat, soft machine, faust, can, popol vuh, magma, kevin ayers, dagmar krause, oum koulsoum, olivier messiaen, henry cow, erik satie, fairuz, carl orff, bela bartok, sun city girls, throbbing gristle, current 93, cabaret voltaire, gyorgy ligeti, rembetica, john fahey, pink floyd, roxy music, brian eno, the fall, supersister, klaus schulze, van der graaf generator, ethiopiques, morton feldman, j.s. bach, alice coltrane, guru guru, the dead c, marlene dietrich, c.p.e. bach, gustav mahler, arnold schoenberg, don cherry, caravan, tony conrad, einsturzende neubauten, swell maps, tangerine dream, univers zero, agitation free, the work, news from babel, king crimson, lucio berio, ennio morricone, goblin, charles hayward, john fahey, kronos quartet, ivor cutler, genesis, lol coxhill, the residents, etron fou leloublan, albert marcouer, neu!, fela kutti, et al.
meeting a dog you suddenly see the abyss of love. such limitless love doesn’t fit our economy. we cannot cope with such an open, superhuman relation. -- hélène cixous
i have never felt so lost or alone ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------- eyes like saucers is the solo project of j. knoch, formerly the farfisa organist for secret eye recording artists - urdog. with eyes like saucers, the darker and more organic regions of inner space are explored ala a slightly modified indian pedal harmonium, effected voice, and sundry accoutrements. drawing inspiration from such artist as nico, robert wyatt, carl orff, and early 20th century german poet, georg trakl, the incessant and labored breathing of the ancient harmonium evokes a bleak and troubled age that, ironically, can best be surmised as a post-apocalyptic era that we have as yet to arrive upon
--- NOW AVAILABLE ---
eyes like saucers : parmalee, tribute to a dog, on ikuisuus (finland) and ruralfaune (france)
--AND-- area c : planetarium project 2cd, on sedimental records
featuring area c with: eyes like saucers, black forest/black sea, and mudboy
compilation:crows of the world vol.2, on last visible dog feat. track by eyes like saucers
aan meets eyes like saucers : kristallivirta, recorded in helsinki, finland, in january '08, is now available on last visible dog.
still living in the desert (and mostly inside my own head) is the first full-length release from eyes like saucers, and is available through the last visible dog label.
also, area c (with eyes like saucers) : haunt is also available on last visible dog.
all titles can purchased for $12 (u.s.), or $16 (world), each - please contact me via myspace or via email (parmaleedog (at) yahoo (dot) com) to place orders.
a forthcoming, as yet untitled eyes like saucers release will hopefully manifest by the end of 2008 - it shall be a tribute to the Dog of dogs, parmalee.
